Apollo 15
| Mission Insignia | |
|---|---|
| Apollo 15 insignia | |
| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission Name: | Apollo 15 |
| Call Sign: | Command module: Endeavour Lunar module: Falcon |
| Number of Crew: |
3 |
| Launch: | July 26, 1971 13:34:00 UTC Kennedy Space Center LC 39A |
| Lunar Landing: | July 30, 1971 22:16:29 UTC 26° 7' 55.99" N - 3° 38' 1.90" E Hadley Rille |
| Lunar EVA length: |
LM Stand Up: 33 min 7 s 1st: 6 h 32 min 42 s 2nd: 7 h 12 min 14 s 3rd: 4 h 49 min 50 s Total: 18 h 34 min 46 s |
| CMP EVA: | 39 min 7 s |
| Lunar Surface Time: |
66 h 54 min 53.9 s |
| Lunar Sample Mass: |
77.31 kg |
| Landing: | August 7, 1971 20:45:53 UTC 26° 7' N - 158° 8' W |
| Duration: | 12 d 7 h 11 min 53 s |
| Number of Lunar Orbits: |
74 |
| Time in Lunar Orbit: |
145 h 12 min 41.68 s |
| Mass: | CSM 30,370 kg; LM 16,430 kg |
| Crew Picture | |
| Apollo 15 Crew | |
Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth mission to land on the Moon.
Crew
- David Scott, commander
- Alfred Worden, command module pilot
- James Irwin, lunar module pilot
The crew members: David Scott, commander; Alfred Worden, command module pilot; and James Irwin, lunar module pilot. It was a J-class mission, featuring the first use of the Lunar Rover. It brought back 76.8 kg of lunar samples. It included four lunar EVA's: 0.5 hours, 6.6 hours, 7.2 hours, and 4.8 hours.
Mission Parameters
- Mass:
- Launch mass: 2,921,005 kg
- Total spacecraft: 46,782 kg
- CSM mass: 30,354 kg, of which CM was 5840 kg, SM 24,514 kg
- LM mass: 16,428 kg, of which ascent stage was 4971 kg, descent stage 11,457 kg
- Earth orbits: 3 before leaving for Moon, about one on return
- Lunar orbits: 74
- Perigee: 169.5 km
- Apogee: 171.3 km
- Inclination: 29.679°
- Period: 87.84 min
- Perilune: 107.4 km
- Apolune: 314.8 km
- Inclination: 154°
- Period: 119 min
- Landing Site: 26.13222° N - 3.63386° E or
26° 7' 55.99" N - 3° 38' 1.90" E
See also
The splashdown point was 26 deg 7 min N, 158 deg, 8 min W, 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii and 9.8 km (6.1 mi) from the recovery ship USS Okinawa.
Mission Highlights
The first of the longer, expedition-style lunar landing missions was also the first to include the lunar rover, a carlike vehicle that extended the astronauts' range. The lunar module Falcon touched down near the sinuous channel known as Hadley Rille. Scott and Irwin rode more than 27.36 kilometers in their rover, and had a free hand in their geological field studies compared to earlier lunar astronauts. They brought back one of the prize trophies of the Apollo program-a sample of ancient lunar crust nicknamed the "Genesis Rock." Apollo 15 also launched a small subsatellite for measuring particles and fields in the lunar vicinity. On the way back to Earth, Worden, who had flown solo on board Endeavor while his crewmates walked on the surface, conducted the first space-walk between Earth and the Moon to retrieve film from the side of the spacecraft.
Relics
The command module is displayed at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio and the lunar module impacted the Moon on 3 August, 1971 at 26.36 N, 0.25 E.
| Preceded by : Apollo 14 |
Apollo program | Followed by : Apollo 16 |
